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News Tipoffs - Utah Editors Newsletter for Friday July 12, 2024 ( 6 items )  

BLS - Western Region Issues Report Entitled 'Consumer Price Index, West Region - June 2024'
SAN FRANCISCO, California, July 12 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Western Regional Information Office issued the following report on July 11, 2024, entitled "Consumer Price Index, West Region - June 2024": * * * Area prices were down 0.2 percent over the past month, up 2.8 percent from a year ago * * * Prices in the West Region, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), fell 0.2 percent in June, the U.S. Bureau of Labor   more

Edwards Lifesciences to Bring Over 500 Jobs to Utah
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, July 12 -- The Utah Governor's Office of Economic Opportunity issued the following news on July 11, 2024: Today, the Utah Governor's Office of Economic Opportunity awarded Edwards Lifesciences, a post-performance tax reduction for its expansion in Salt Lake County. The corporate incentive is part of the state's Economic Development Tax Increment Financing (EDTIF) program. As part of the agreement, Edwards Lifesciences projects to add 560 new, high-paying jobs and invest $  more

Precision Hermetic Technology Relocates to Ogden City
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, July 12 -- The Utah Governor's Office of Economic Opportunity issued the following news on July 11, 2024: Today, the Utah Governor's Office of Economic Opportunity awarded Precision Hermetic Technology a post-performance tax reduction for its expansion in Weber County. The corporate incentive is part of the state's Economic Development Tax Increment Financing program. As part of the agreement, Precision Hermetic Technology projects adding 210 new, high-paying jobs in Utah  more

U.S. Army Reserve deploys to Angola for medical readiness exercise
FORT BRAGG, North Carolina, July 11 -- The U.S. Army Reserve Command issued the following news: LUANDA, Angola A specialized team from the 934th Forward Resuscitative Surgical Detachment (FRSD) based in Salt Lake City, Utah, arrived in Luanda to participate in the latest medical readiness exercise (MEDREX). Scheduled to span three weeks from July 8-20, this exercise marks a significant effort in fostering U.S.-Angola military medical collaboration. MEDREX Angola is jointly pl  more

Utah U.S. Attorney: Pennsylvania Man Charged With Alien Smuggling & Human Trafficking
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, July 12 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Utah issued the following news release on July 11, 2024: A federal grand jury returned an indictment yesterday charging a dual citizen, living in Pennsylvania, who traveled to Salt Lake City for the purpose of paying for and obtaining tourist visas to promote the illegal smuggling of foreign nationals into the United States. According to court documents, Sivarupan Sivaramalingam, 43, of Malvern, PA, was arres  more

Wolverine Fuels to Expand in Emery County
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, July 12 -- The Utah Governor's Office of Economic Opportunity issued the following news on July 11, 2024: Today, the Utah Governor's Office of Economic Opportunity awarded Wolverine Fuels, LLC, a post-performance tax reduction for its expansion in Emery County. The corporate incentive is part of the state's Rural Economic Development Tax Increment Financing (REDTIF) program. As part of the agreement, Wolverine Fuels projects adding more than 340 new, high-paying jobs in r  more